will left-wing terror increase, remain the same, or decrease in the next 5 years? Explain the basis for your opinion. Solution Terrorism is the premeditated use or threat to use violence by individuals or sub national groups to obtain a political or social objective through the intimidation of a large audience beyond that of the immediate victims. Left wing extremism often has developed from working -class movements seeking in theory to eliminate, not preserve, class distinctions. Communism evolved from left wing extremism. The threat from left wing extremists did not die with the collapse of the Soviet Union, however. Domestic groups and state -sponsored cells and individuals have continued their espionage activities and the planning of terrorist actions against the U.S. government. Many believe that leftist extremism in the United States was at its peak during the 1960s and 1970s and that right wing extremism then became the major threat. Leftist extremists were responsible for three -fourths of the officially designated acts of terrorism in America in the 1980s. Leftist extremists also pose an espionage threat to U.S. interest. The threat to the United States government from leftist extremists has decreased considerably in the past decade, but it has not disappeared. There are individuals and organizations within the United States who maintain the same ideology that resulted in the growth of left wing terrorism in this country in the 1970s and 1980s. On the basis on my opinion, Left wing extremism continues, indeed, to be a potential threat to U.S. government agencies. The challenge in responding to this threat is to ensure that the rights of individuals to form and express their own beliefs are balanced with the need to provide security and protection against terrorism and espionage that may be committed by the most extreme members of these movements. Leftist extremism presents two threats. We thing that first threat is terrorism. Left wing terrorists have been responsible for bombings, assassinations, robberies, and planned attacks on infrastructure targets. The second threat is their potential support of espionage conducted against the United States by supporting countries such as Cuba. Although the United States has not experienced any major leftist terrorist movements or actions in recent years, these groups continue to be active in other parts of world. Of the 40 terrorist groups listed in the U.S. Department of State\'s 1998 report, 16 were Islamic or Palestinian extremist groups and 16 were Marxist Leninist organizations. But today there is no equivalent threat from left-wing extremists. Small bands of masked protestors periodically indulge in a bout of window smashing or throw rocks at the police, but bombings, bank robberies and gunfights with law enforcement are the province of fringe right-wing extremist groups..